Well, it seems like I found another forum, dedicated for Laserdisc. I can might as well introduce myself.
My name is Sebastian and I live in Stockholm (Sweden). I'm 16 years old, making me one of the youngest LD-collectors out there. Most younger people just downloads their movies today and that's something I really dislike. I'm proud to say that I've never downloaded a movie, I buy everything and that's the way it's going to be in the rest of my life. I found this forum because I bought The Seventh Seal (if you haven't seen it, SEE IT!) on Ebay some days ago and the seller contacted me with a link to this forum. Thanks!
My interest for movies started in late 2008 when I saw Blade Runner for the first time and it blew my mind. Some months later I started to buy movies on Blu-Ray because my dad bought a Blu-Ray player about a half year earlier and I was (by then) completely sold on good picture and audio quality. However, when I got up in about 75 BD's or so, it became the only format I cared about. The problem then was that I didn't have my own HDTV, so when I wanted to watch something I had to watch it in the living room. Everyone in my family got annoyed about it because I saw "too violent" films by then, just because I went through every film directoed by Tarantino by that moment, so I decided to start with a format that I could have in my own room and therefore I decided to go with LD.
I bought my first LD-player in April 2010 and it was a Pioneer CLD-990, along with a decent oldschool reciever. Though I have always used speakers, my earlier reciever was a joke because it only had one single RCA-input and had built-in "double cassette deck" and CD-player, making it a 70 cm wide top-loader that I had to have on the floor. It was a mess, but it worked for many years. So when I got a decent reciever and a somewhat acceptable LD-player, I decided to make my own, extremely cheap, home-theatre with just a simple 20" flat-screen 4:3 CRT that takes
anything!
Since then, I've bought about a hundereds of diffrent titles and I currently have three players (Pioneer CLD-990, Pioneer CLD-D505 and Sony MDP-650). I'm only using the Pioneer CLD-D505 right now and this is how my setup looks like.
https://2img.net/h/i69.photobucket.com/albums/i74/nissling/DSC_0195.jpgOther then that, what can you say about me? When it comes to movies, I'm a
huge fan of Stanley Kubrick and Ingmar Bergman. Their films are pretty much about as good as films can get, but I'm also a fan of other director's such as Jim Jarmusch, John Woo, Ridley Schott, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Luc Besson, The Coen-brothers, Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Cimino, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Lang... You get the idea! ;D
I can might as well give you my list of my top ten favorite films.
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Deer Hunter
3. Pulp Fiction
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Blade Runner
6. The Terminator (
Not the second one!)
7. Seven Samurai
8. The Seventh Seal
9. One flew Over The Cuckoo's nest
10. Mononoke-hime
For being a 16-year old guy from Sweden, I sort of stick out a bit from the majority.
Other then movies, I don't have many diffrent interests. That would be anime and long walks. Nothing more, ridicilous huh?